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But despite the one-sided scoreline, Stam claimed his team had enjoyed the better of the contest on Tyneside.

Royals’s boss said: “I think if you look at the game we were the better team in how we played.

“But we conceded goals on set plays by giving away stupid fouls. I told the guys after the game we need to work on that, we need to focus on those situations because if you concede goals like that every time you’re going to make things very hard for yourselves.

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“If you look at the game though and how we played we can be very proud. The guys did a very good job.

“We had a lot of possession, had a couple of good chances and had a lot of threat going forward. So we were happy with that. If we keep playing like that I’m sure we’re going to be winning a lot of games.”

Stam added: “It was 4-1 and I’m sure everyone in Newcastle will be saying they were the better team, but they weren’t.